Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1887-12-27
CURRENT FASHIONS.
Dress Notes Whose Reliability Is Vouched
For by an Expert.

Dress Notes Whose Reliability Is Vouched
For by an Expert.
Hat trimming will continue 10 DO
very high. ra-
Honiton laco will bo in highest fash
ion for bridal toilets.
Lace jabots will DO much worn, but
they will be called steinkirks.
Side panels arc going out Front
bands or draped panels will take their
place.
Moiro will be used for trimming
serge dresses, but scarcely in any 9TH
or way.
Next winter viii bo emphaticallY q
silk" as distinguished from "wooi-
en-" season.
The most fashionable women in
Paris are wearing then gowns with
out tho tournure
Coat basques with long square side
pieces. low on the hirs, will bo used
for deml-saison toilets.
The puffed sleeves have had their
brief day Straight sleeves will rulc
during the fall and winter.
Silk tapestries rs thick and rich as
upholsterers' goods may be used TO
trim wool dresses.
Shot silks and shot yolvels will be
combined in expensive toilets this fall,
and the result will, as rule, be hope
lessly ugly.
Blown glass beads and pearls arc
certain to be among tho most fashion,
able ofdress trimmings during the fall
and winter.
Mahogany and the various Florentino
reds will be favorile shades for street
wear next winter They are certainly
warm looking
Draped and folded vests will remain
n feature in most fall and winter gowns.
Repped silk, Bengaline and velvet will
be used for thom.
What used to be called tho 'Pierrot
ruff will next winter be known as the
"Roi de Rome" collar and finish off
the neck of many bodice.
Dressmakers who plait and gather q
quantity of stuff about the dress
wearer's figure are not following tho
best models Simplicity will rule next |
winter
Beadings this fall should be Of tho |
same tone as the foundation, and the |
beads must be so literally used that
but very little of the foundation can DO |
seen.
French women will cling to the big
plaids which have run all summer, but
English women will have none of
them, so they will be dangerous ex-
periments here.
Single-eolored travelling gowns for
early fall must be either gray. Gobelin
blue or fawn color trimmed with
of the same shade. Tho
basque should have no vest.
The long, straight polonaises, which
will be made of heavy materials for
winter wear, should not bo caught up
In the hips, but be cut in fiat plaits
behind, sloping away at the sides TO
disclose the skirt beneath. which will
be entirely concealed elsewhere.
Simple and beautiful house gowns of
cloth or camel's hair will be made with
A round waist. and single skirt widely
Dordered with fur gray, blue, sable,
beaver or Astrakhan to suit the color
If tho material. Passomenteries of
applique silk cord, with fur introduced,
nay also form these borders.
In tailor-made gowns smooth-sur-
aced cloths will still bo used for dressy
iuits, two markedly contrasting color
n one costume. the lighter color for
owor skirt and vest the darker for the
basque and drapery. Thus serpent
,reen over gray, and dark blue over
obacco brown. Jacket in the darker
iolor. Small mantles and shoulder
apes of tho two colors in combination.
Cleveland Leader.